Password on your computer?

[Lager]

Do you lock your computer with password? Such as XP has a built in feature or through your BIOS?

 

[Nohr]

Nope, have no need.

 

[Lyfer]

NO

 

[MaxDepth]

I have 28 passwords on my computer and they all spell out, "beer."

 

[thenerdguy]

yes i do.
one for the bios
one for grub
one for win98
one for win xp
one for lindows
one for linux

 

[Ronstang]

Not anymore, but I did for a while because I caught my GF snooping and misinterpreting something and then giving me a hard time. It burned her up that she couldn't get on my system for months.....so now she leaves my crap alone so I have no need to password protect it.

 

[aux]

yes, all of my passwords are ********

 

[Spikey289]

Yes at work I need to lots of people like to prank over here! :0

 

[Hammer]

yup. just for xp though

 

[Anubis]

nope

 

[acidvoodoo]

yea, just so i can lock my desktop and my brother can't come and mess with my downloads

 

[Spac3d]

nope.

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Yeah, I have a BIOS boot password, a HDD password, and a Windows domain password. I also always lock my computer when I leave it.

^paranoid

edit: I don't have a BIOS password or HDD password on my servers because if they get reset (run out of backup battery juice), they can't boot back up

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

doh! doublepost

 

[BCYL]

Yes, I lock my computer whenever I'm not home.... I don't like other people looking at the information on my computer...

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
Not anymore, but I did for a while because I caught my GF snooping and misinterpreting something and then giving me a hard time. It burned her up that she couldn't get on my system for months.....so now she leaves my crap alone so I have no need to password protect it.

I keep telling her, if she wants p0rn, then get it herself. Leave mine alone.

 

[compudog]

At work, it is policy. All users are to have a password. As network admin, I dictate when and what type of format. At home, I have none that matter.

 

My password is: fs3sk392

 

[0roo0roo]

less hidden your pr0n is, the more likely u'll have a pw

 

[dighn]

no need

you shoul dhave created a poll, noob

 

[UglyCasanova]

How do I lock it through XP? I know in W2K all I had to do was hit ctrl-alt-del, but I don't see that option in XP. I don't really need to, just curious.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth

Originally posted by: Ronstang
Not anymore, but I did for a while because I caught my GF snooping and misinterpreting something and then giving me a hard time. It burned her up that she couldn't get on my system for months.....so now she leaves my crap alone so I have no need to password protect it.

I keep telling her, if she wants p0rn, then get it herself. Leave mine alone.

I like watching pron with my gfs.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: dparker
How do I lock it through XP? I know in W2K all I had to do was hit ctrl-alt-del, but I don't see that option in XP. I don't really need to, just curious.

in the screen saver optons menu in display properties there is a checkbox for lock computer. just click that and it will auto lock when your screen saver comes up.

 

[J3anyus]

Yep, I do, even though it doesn't help much. If you have physical access to a machine, you can do damn near anything to it, and passwords won't help.

 

[Viper GTS]

I lock my box when I walk away from it. The most you'd be able to do on our network without a domain login would be obtain internet access (via DHCP).

Viper GTS